Alternating-current motor.



E. DANIELSON. ALTERNATING CURRENT MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24, 1907.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

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ERNST DANI'ELSON, OF STOPSJON, FOGDHYTTAN, SWEDEN, ASSIGNOR TO GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

ALTERNATING-CURBENT MOTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNST DANIELSON, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing at Stopsjt'm, Fogdhyttan, Sweden, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in A ternating-Current Motors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to dynamo-electric machines, and particularly to multi-speed induction motors in which it is desired to ionnect the winding for different pole numers.

Since the speed of an induction motor is determined by the number of its poles, arrangements for controlling the pole-numbers have been devised heretofore involving special coil connections or special forms of windings, or both. My present invention is particularly applicable to motors havin a wellknown type of primary winding in which the coils or sets of coils for each phase of each pole are distinct from each other, as contrasted with a lap winding in which the coils progress uniformly around the eriphery so that the poles are distinguishe only by the coil connections and not by the arrangement of the coils. This type of winding,

where more than one coil per pole per phase is used, is sometimes known as a basket winding, and with this type, the only variation in pole numbers heretofore obtained, so far as I am aware, has been in the ratio of 2 to 1. A standard three-phase motor provided with such a winding has every third coil or sets of coils connected in the same phase.

My invention, in one aspect, consists in providing suitable terminal leads whereby such a winding may be connected in two phases with every other coil included in the same phase. By thus altering the connec tions, the number of poles is varied in the ratio of e to 3, and by employing aT-oonnection when the coils of the winding are connected in two phases, the motor may be operated on a three-phase circuit with either pole number.

One objection that has existed heretofore to operating a two-phase machine with T- connection on a, threehase circuit is that in order that a balance three-phase voltage should be produced by the winding, one phase shoul have fewer turns in it than the other, so that to secure the balanced voltage a portion of one phase must be cut out of circuit.

One feature of my invention consists in employing a voltage transformer adapted for connection with the two phases of the motor such that all the coils of both phases may be usefully employed and a balanced threephase voltage obtained.

My invention will best be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows diagrammatically a standard winding of a type to which my invention is applicable, and indicates the number and positions of the poles when the winding is connected in three phases; Fig. 2 is a similar diagram showing the positions of the poles when the winding is connected in two phases; Fig. 3 shows a diagram of a two phase T-connected machine provided with a transformer in accordance with my invention; Fig. 4 shows a modification of the same; and Figs. 5 and 6 show the coil-connections for producing the polarities indicated in Figs. 1 and 2.

In Fig. 1 I have indicated diagrammatically a well-known type of motor winding. If this windin is connected in three phases, the coils a will com rise one phase, coils b a second, and the col s c a third. The positions of the oles for the phase a are indicated by the ines N and S. It will be noted that only a single coil er pair of poles or phase is used, but it will be understood t at the conductors forming each coil a may be concentrated in a single coil, as shown in the figure, or may be distributed so as to form a set of two, threeor more coils, as in the wellknown basket type of winding.

If, instead of connecting every third coil in the same hase, every other coil be connected in the same phase, then a two-phase arrangement is produced, as shown in Fig. 2, in which the 001 s e represent one phase, and the coils f the other. The positions of the poles for the first phase are represented by the letters N and S. It will be seen that with the two-phaseconnection there are tivo coils per pair of poles per phase, instead of only one, as in Fig. l, and that the number of poles in Fig. 1 bears to the number of poles in Fig. 2 the ratio of 4 to 3. Thus, even with the type of windin shown, in which distinct coils or sets of coi s are employed for each pole, a variation of the number of poles in the ratio of 4 to 3 may be obtained 1n a simple manner.

The winding, when connected in two phases, as shown in Fig. 2, may be operated from a three-phase circuit by employing a T-connection; but if a simple T-connection were used, either a portion of the coils of one phase would have to be left out of circuit, or else an .unbalanced three-phase voltage would be produced. By the arrangement of Fig. 3, all the coils are in circuit, and a balanced three-phase voltage is secured. In this arrangement a voltage transformer or compensator G is employed. This compensator is connected between the motor terminals 2 and 3, and in T with the phase E, and the phase F is connected in shunt to a portion of the compensator. The compensator serves to produce a voltage between the terminals 2-3, greater than that of phase F, so that all the coils of phase E may be employed and a balanced three-phase voltage secured at the terminals 123. It may be demonstrated mathematically that the capacity of the compensator G need be not more than 17% of that of a transformer large enough to supply the totalinput of the motor, so that the cost of the motor is not greatly increased by the use of the compensator; while its ca acity is increased as compared with the or inary T-connections, since all its coils are in circuit.

Fig. 4 shows a different arrangement of the compensator. The phase E is connected between the terminals 1 and 2, while the compensator has one terminal connected'to the central oint of phase E, and an intermediate termina connected to the motor terminal 3.

The phase F is connected in shunt to the entire compensator. That this arrangement also roduces a balanced three-phase voltage will be obvious to those skilled in the art.

Figs. 5 and 6 show the circuit connections between the coils for roducing the threephase arrangement indicated in Fig. 1 and the two-phase arrangement indicated in Fi 2, respectively. The connections by whic certain of the coils are ermanentl joined in groups are shown in full lines, whi e the connections that are changed in shifting from three-phase to two-phase connections are shown in dotted lines. In Fig. 5, the three phases are shown connected in delta, and the three terminals are indicated at a, b and c. In Fig. 6 the terminals of'the hase care indigatjed by e, and the termina s of the phase y f It will be understood that while I prefer to employ a compensator or voltage transformer in connection with a motor arranged for control in accordance with my invention, I claim the control arrangement shown, whether a Volta e transformer is employed or not and it further be understood that a transformer as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 may be employed in combination with any twophase T-connected machine, whether arranged for a variable number of poles'or not.

As I have explained above, while I have indicated in the drawings only a single coil per pole per phase, for the three-phase connection, or per pair of poles per phase for-the twophase connection, a set of coils may be, and ordinarily would be, employed in place of each coil shown in the drawings. Whether or not each set of coils includes one coil or more is immaterial to my invention, and when I employ the term set of coils in the appended claims it will be understood to cover a set of either one or more coils.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is,-

1. In combination, a dynamo-electricmachine for three-phase operation having a winding connected in two equal phases, and a transformer adapted for T-connection with said two lphases to produce a balanced threephase vo tags.

2. In combination, a dynamo-electric machine for three-phase operation having a windin connected in two equal phases, and a trans ormer connected inT with one of said phases and in parallel with the other and adapted to produce with said phases a bala ncedthree-phase voltage.

3. A dynamo-electric machine having a distributed winding comprising distinct sets of coils, said sets being provided with terminal leads whereby the same coils may be connected in three phases with every third coil included in the same phase, and in two phases with every other coil included in the same phase.

4. A dynamo-electric machine having a distributed winding comprising distinct sets of coils, said sets being permanently con- I nected in groups and the groups being provided with terminal leads whereby the same groups may be connected in three phases with every third coil included in the same phase, and in two phases with every other coil included in the same phase.

5. A dynamo-electric machine having a distributed windin comprising distinct sets of coils, said sets I eing provided with terminal leads whereby they may be connected in three phases with every third coil included in the same phase, and in two phases with every other coil included in the same phase, and a transformer adapted for T-connection with said two hases to produce a balanced.

threehase v0 tage.

6. dynamo-electric machine having a distributed winding comprising distinct sets of coils, said sets being permanently connected in groups and the groups being provided with terminal leads whereby the'windingma be connected in three phases with every t d coil included in the same phase,

. three-phase with one number of poles and in and in two phases with every other coil inl cluded in the same phase, and a transformer adapted for T-connection with said two phases to produce a balanced three-phase voltage.

7. A multispeed alternating current motor having a winding with its coils connected in groups and provided with terminal leads whereby the same groups may be connected in three-phase with one number of poles and in two-phase for a second number of poles, said pole numbers bearing to each the ratio of 4 t0 3.

8. A multispeed alternating current motor having a winding with its coils connected in groups and provided with terminal leads whereby the winding may be connected in two-phase for a second number of poles, and a transformer adapted for T-connection with the motor when the motor is connected in two-phase to produce with the motor winding a balanced three-phase voltage.

9. A multispeed polyphase motor having a winding with a single set of coils per pair of poles per phase and with its coils connected in groups and provided with terminal leads, whereby they may be connected in three phases with every third set of coils in the same phase, and in two phases with every other coil in the same phase.

10f A multispeed polyphase motor having a winding with a single set of coils per pair of poles per phase and with its coils connected in groups and provided with terminal leads, whereby they may be connected in three phases with every third set of coils in the same phase, and in two phases with every other coil in the same phase, and a voltage transformer adapted for T-connection with the two phases to produce therewith a balanced three-phase voltage.

In witness whereof, l have hereunto set my hand this sixth day of June, 1907.

ERNST DAN'IELSON. Witnesses:

ANDERS HENRIK LARSON, EMIL GUSTAF BOYC. 

